A Great Hand by Fred Piscop

Across 1. Workbench gripper 6. Take rudely 10. Con job 14. Lofty lair 15. Casino city 16. Hankering 17. Places for plaques 18. Familiar with 19. Bog fuel 20. ACE 22. Singer James or Jones 23. Demolition need 24. Let out, as fishing line 26. Daytona 500 org. 30. Boxing ring boundaries 32. Baltic Sea feeder 33. With cubes 35. Marsh plant 39. Edgar, painter of ballerinas 41. Mil. mail drop 42. Bald tire's lack 43. After-school 66-Across, e.g. 44. Stinging remark 46. Peddle in the bleachers 47. __-face (show of affection) 49. Fuel provides it 51. Syrian city 54. Sis's sib 55. __ sci (coll. major) 56. ACE 62. Place for a cooling pie 63. Horn sound 64. Stiller's mate 66. Twistable cookie 67. Slaughter in baseball 68. Passion 69. Shipped off 70. __ a soul (no one) 71. On the lam

Down 1. Crow's cry 2. Wife of Jacob 3. Folk's Guthrie 4. Place for grist 5. Pre-euro Barcelona buck 6. Sty sound 7. Taken-back car 8. Auth. unknown 9. Cram for an exam 10. ACE 11. Minotaur's home 12. Playing marble 13. Heavy __ music 21. Calvary letters 25. Digs made of twigs 26. Silent assents 27. Yemeni port 28. Nintendo rival 29. ACE 30. Satisfy, as a debt 31. Limburger emanation 34. Semi compartments 36. "In the headlights" critter 37. "West Side Story" faction 38. Whirling water 40. Go directly from first to third grade, say 45. Titanic totaler 48. Use saddle soap on, say 50. 98.6°, body temperature-wise 51. Lhasa __ (Tibetan dogs) 52. River of Tours 53. Barkin or Burstyn 54. __ Wetsy (old doll) 57. Scottish isle 58. The Koh-i-__ diamond 59. Prefix with dyne or drome 60. Carpentry groove 61. Libidinous god 65. "__ you for real?"

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